Fred Brooks Quotes

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Since your company is the product that makes all of your other products, it should be the best product of all. When you begin to think of your company this way, you evaluate it differently. You ask different questions about it. You look at improving it constantly, rather than just accepting what it's become.

Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies.

I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.

I'm not about change for the sake of change, but we should always be evaluating any initiative we're working on to see if we can do it better.

So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

The principles and methods for improvement are the same for service as for manufacturing. The actual application differs, of course, from one product to another, and from one type of service to another.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

Cause mo better makes it mo better.

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

We have to practice to become perfect.

We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.

Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

Practice makes us what we shall be.

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.